Butter-cutting device.



No. 814,558. PATENTED MAR. 6, 1906.

H. MOYER. BUTTER CUTTING DEVICE.

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BUTTER-CUTTING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

.c'atented March 6, 1906.

Application filed November 2, 1905. Serial No. 285,623.

To all whom it may concern:

- Be it known that I, HERMAN MOYER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Denver,

in the county of Denver and State of Colorado, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Butter-Cutting Devices; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in devices for cutting or forming butter into small blocks or bricks for use on the diningtable.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple, durable, inexpensive, and eflicient device of this character by means of which a large block or brick of butter or the like may be uickly and easily cut into a number of sma 1 blocks.

With the above and other objects in view the invention consists of certain novel features of construction, combination, and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved buttercutting device. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view, the parts being shown in full lines in the position shown in Fi' 1 and in dotted lines in the position in which said parts would be after the brick of butter has been cut in a horizontal plane. Fig. 4 is a similar sectional view showing the position of the parts after the brick of butter has been divided or cut into a number of small blocks, and Fig. 5 is a vertical transverse sectional view.

Referring to the drawings by numeral, 1 denotes a suitable base or support which, as shown, is in the form of a rectangular box having an open top formed or provided along its longitudinal side edges with guide-grooves 2. As shown, the support 1 is of wood, and the grooves 2 are formed by securing angle metal strips along the upper edges of the sides of the same; but it will be understood that said support may be constructed of any suitable material and may be of any suitable form and shape. Mounted to slide upon the top of the support 1 insaid guides 2 is a cutter-carrier 3, which is here shown in the form of a three-sided rectangular box having an opgn top and bottom and an open front end. T 's cutter-carrying box or element 3 may be formed of metal orany other suitable material; but, as shown, it is constructed of two wooden sides 4, united at their rear by a wooden end 5 and at their front by a metal bridge-plate or cross-piece 6. The sides 4 have secured upon their bottom edges metal plates 7, which are adapted to slide upon the upper edge of the sides of the support 1 and to enter the guide-grooves 2. The rear end 5 has its bottom 8 projecting downwardly below the plane of the metal strips 7 for apurpose presently explained. The metal bridgepiece 6 consists of avertically-disposed transversely extending portion arranged above the forward ends of the sides 4 and provided with depending arms 9, which engage and' are secured to the outer side faces of said ends, as shown. The cutters carried by this carrier or element 3 are in the form of fine wires and are arranged across the open front end and the open top of the same. As shown, but one cutting-wire 10 is arranged across the open front end of the carrier, and it is horizontally disposed in the center of said open end, so that the brick of butter will be cut in a horizontal plane. Said wire is seated in grooves 11, formed in the forward ends of the sides 4, and in the arms 9 of the bridgeplate 6, and its ends are secured to screws or other suitable fastenings 12, as shown. The cutting-wires across the open top of the carrier 3 are arranged transversely and longitudinally, so that the block or brick of butter will be out in vertical planes at right angles to each other. As shown, but one longitudinal wire 13 is provided, and that is arranged horizontally in the center of the open top and has its ends seated in grooves 14, formed in the top of the end 5 and in the bottom of the central portion of the bridge-plate 6, the ends of said wire being secured to screws or studs 15, as shown. A plurality of transverse cutting-wires 16 are provided, and, as shown, they are formed of a single piece of wire by lacing the same back and forth across the top of the carrier, so that they are paralare formed directly in the sides of the carrier, which latter may be cast or otherwise formed in one or more parts, as desired. The arrangement of the cutting-wires 10, 13, and 16 is the one I preferably use when I desire to cut a one-pound brick of butter into forty small blocks; but it will be understood that any other arrangement of the wires may be provided, so that a brick of butter of any size and weight may be cut into any number of small blocks.

The brick of butter to be cut by the machine into small blocks is placed upon a movable table 20, which is mounted so that it swings vertically and will be maintained at all times in a horizontal plane. This table or plate 20 is so mounted by means of two parallel links 21, which have their lower ends pivotally mountedflas at 22, within the support 1 and their u per ends pivotally connected, as at 23, to lugs 24, formed upon the under side of the table 20. The latter is in the form of a rectan ular metal plate having a curved downwardIy-projecting portion 25 at its rear end and an upwardly-projecting stop 26 at its front end, which stop is divided or slotted centrally, as at 28. In the top or upper face of the table 20 are formed longitudinal and transverse grooves or channels 29, which are similar in arrangement to that of the cutting-wires 13 16, which they are adapted to receive when the parts are in the position shown in Fig. 4 of the drawings. The butter-supportin table 20 when in its lowermost position shown in Fig. 1) is adapted to rest upon the upper edges of the sides of the support 1 at a point substantially midway the ends of the latter.

The operation of the device is as follows: After the brick of butter has been placed centrally upon the top of the table 20 the cuttercarrier 3 is engaged with the guides 2 at the rear end of the support 1, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings. Said carrier is then moved toward the opposite end of the support 1, so that it moves over the brick of butter, and the horizontal wire 10 moves through the center of the same in a horizontal plane to out said brick into two halves. When the projecting stop portion 8 of the rear end 5 of the carrier engages the curved rear end 26 of the butter supporting table 20, the latter will be elevated by the continued sliding movement of the carrier and will be moved vertically in said carrier to force the brick of butter up through the wires 13 16 in order to cut the brick in right-angularly-disposed vertical planes, and thus divide it into small blocks. Owing to the mounting of the table 20 upon the parallel links 21, it will be maintained in a horizontal plane as it moves upwardly in the carrier, and the brick of butter will be cut in three planes at right angles to each other, and thus formed into small rectangular blocks. It will be noted that the one operation of the element 3that is, its sliding movement-from one end to the other of the support 1 will cause the block to be cut in three different planes, which are preferably, but not necessarily, at right angles'to each other. v

While I have shown and described my invention as being formed of both wood and metal, it will be understood that it may be constructed of any suitable material and in any size and form. I wish it also understood that the arrangement of the cutters may also be varied so that the brick of butter may be cut into any number of blocks of any size and shape.

Various other changes in the form, proportion, and the minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A butter-cutter having a cutter-carrier, guides to direct the movement of said carrier, a table movable by the movement of the carrier in a plane intersecting and at an angle to that of the movement of the carrier, and means to so direct such movement of the table.

2. In a device of the character described, the combination of a support, a butter-supporting table, parallel links for said table and said support, and a sliding cutter-carrier upon said support adapted to engage said table and move it vertically through the same.

3. In a device of the character described, the combination of a support, a buttersup porting table, parallel links for said table and said support, a stop upon one end of said table, guides upon said support, a cutter-carrier slidable upon said guide, cutter-wires at the end and top of said carrier, and means upon said carrier for engaging said table, substantially as described.

4. In a machine of the character described, the combination of a support having guides at its top, a butter-supporting table having grooves in its top, parallel links pivotally connecting said table to said support, a stop at one end of said table, a carrier slidable in the grooves in said support and having an open top, bottom and front end, cuttingwires arranged across the open top and end of said carrier, and a projection upon the rear of said carrier adapted to engage said table, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

- HERMAN MOYER.

Witnesses ANNA M. HUTi-I, F. L. JAooBY. 

